mother board

[camaro guy]

How do I find out what kind of mother board I have? Am I posting in the right catagory? I do know that I have windows 98 SE:)

[tb525]

Go here and download and run Belarc Advisor. It will tell you everything about your system.

http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

[camaro guy]

Will that include sound card info? I'm not getting any sound and I'm not to computer savvy?I opened the tower but, I can't locate the sound card. Can it be built into the motherboard? Where the speakers plug into the back of the tower, it's not on a seperate slot.

How does that site work? The way i'm imagining it doesn't sound safe? thanks

[tb525]

It is very safe. It is a small program that will analyze your system.
It will list all hardware components that have drivers installed.

Yes, It should list the sound card. And yes, You may have onboard sound.

[camaro guy]

Can I add a new sound board? Do they just crap out ?

[tb525]

It may be just a corrupt file. If you have onboard sound, You would need to disable it in the BIOS before adding a PCI sound card.

Click Start > Settings > Control Panel > System
Click the device manager tab. Are there any yellow !'s or ?'s ?

Also click the + next to sound, video and game controllers.
What is listed for audio?

[camaro guy]

Yes a yellow (!) Next to (soundmax integrated digital audio)

[tb525]

You need to reinstall the sound card drivers. Do you have a drivers CD that came with your computer?

If not what make and model is your PC?

[camaro guy]

When I clicked the + it listed these

-gameport joystick
-MPU-401 compatible
- ! soundmax integrated digital audio
-wave device for voice modem

[tb525]

see above!

[camaro guy]

I.m not sure. what should I be looking for on the CD?

[camaro guy]

I have Systemax recovery CD-rom. Would it be on there?

It's a systemax computer. Not sure of the model #
where do I find that?

Again I want to say thanks for your help:D

[tb525]

They may be, Place the CD in the CD-Rom and then 'browse' the cd. Look for a folder titled 'drivers' or it may be 'Win98' then drivers.
Look for soundmax audio. Remember where they are located.

If they are on there, remove the cd, then open the device manager again and right click on soundmax audio and click remove. Reboot

When Windows detects the sound card and asks for the drivers, place your cd in and 'point' the wizard to the location of the drivers.

[camaro guy]

I'm an idiot! I can't "browse" the CD

[tb525]

With the CD inserted, Click your 'My Computer' icon then click the CD-ROM drive that the CD is inserted in. Look through the folders.

[camaro guy]

There's only two folders.. final and images

[tb525]

What is the make and model of your PC?

[camaro guy]

according to belarc...SNC302EEH Systemax Systems

[tb525]

Hmmm, What does Belarc list for the motherboard?

[camaro guy]

board:SNC302EEH
bus clock:133 megahertz
bios:award software international inc. 6.00PG5/22/00

[tb525]

There support site is down right now, Try there later and download the drivers for your onboard sound.

www.support.systemax.com

[camaro guy]

I hope that site comes back soon. Again thanks for your help:)
I've been without sound for 4 MONTHS:eek:

[tb525]

Try this one:

http://drivers.on-line.net.nz/details/e000064s.shtml

[camaro guy]

where would I download that to?

[Murf]

Check your Email, email me and I will send these files to you and show you how to install them, it will be easier this way.

The files I will be sending you are:

smwdm,sys
smwdm.inf
smx.cat

These are small files which will install the drivers for the card. I downloaded them from the site that tb525 listed.

[camaro guy]

still no workie....this is what it's telling me..

the NTKERN.VXD, MMDEVLDR.VXD device loaders for this device could not load the device driver. (code2)

man this is aggravating:(

[Murf]

Do this. go back to device manager and highlight the one with the yellow splat and then hit the REMOVE Button.

Now reboot and Windows will find that the driver is not installed and a wizard should come up. When asked point it to the flopply that you put the drivers on to install them. When done, reboot

[camaro guy]

I did just like you said and when I rebooted, windows did it's thing automatically (wouldn't let me point to the floppy) and under device status it's still saying the same thing:confused: :confused: Anything else we can try? Do integrated sound cards just crap out? It's about two years old.

[camaro guy]

TTT

[Murf]

Create a new folder on your desktop (Right-click / new / folder)
Select those three files I sent and copy to this folder on your desktop

Remove the device again from device manager

Now click refresh

Get out and go into control panel | add new hardware

Do not allow Windows to search, select Sound , check have disk and point to the folder on your desk top

That should find the *.INF file and install the drivers,

Reboot